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Peterson Test 2 Nik
Question | Answer |
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Henry George in Progress and Poverty urged Americans | to adopt a single tax on the value of land. 3 |
"The term ""Crime of 1873"" refers to " | the removal of the United States from the silver standard.4 |
______ did not restrict immigrants | legal barriers to practicing one's religion 7 |
the _____elections was significant because the results showed a marked shift of the electorate to the right | 1980 12 |
The basis for the War Powers Act was | Congress's duty under the Constitution to declare war. 13 |
Henry Kissinger used shuttle diplomacy during Gerald Ford's administration to try to ease tensions between | Israel and Egypt. 15 |
these social trends disturbed conservatives in the 1970s | "abortion rights. the sexual revolution. drug culture. And the women's rights movement. 19" |
The ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright established | the right to counsel to represent a defendant. 22 |
The purpose of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act was to | "a. balance the budget. 23 " |
a Member of the Religious Right would be least likely to support the "rainbow coalition"? Because | a rainbow coalition wants equal rights for everyone including gays and Latinos, a Member of the Religious Right would oppose that. 25 |
The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union was foretold by what | Containment 26 |
The most notable element in the election of 1988 was | "that the outcome owed as much to media management as it did to the policy differences between Bush and Dukakis. 27" |
"A budgetary problem that defied presidents' efforts at reform in the latter part of the twentieth century was " | "Social Security. 28" |
"The election of 1888 was significant, because " | it was the first time Republicans campaigned for a high protective tariff. 32 |
the ______was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court | Line-item veto of the budget 33 |
"The settlement house movement in the United States was begun by " | "Jane Addams. 34" |
______ was NOT a cause for the end of open-range cattle ranching | Attacks by Native Americans 36 |
The Populist Party in 1892 attempted to build a coalition with _______ | The urban working class 38 |
______used the camera to study human movement in order to paint realistic pictures | Thomas Eakins 43 |
"""Every diplomat a salesman"" best describes U.S. foreign policy under which president? " | William Howard Taft 56 |
Men who were illiterate including African Americans were not called up for duty in _____ | WW1 62 |
All of the following nations were created as a result of the Treaty of Versailles | "Austria. Poland. Czechoslovakia. and Yugoslavia 63" |
the ______doomed the Treaty of Versailles to rejection by the Senate | Inclusion of the League of Nations 64 |
_________ was not an arguments used to support the imposition of restrictions on immigration in the 1920s | With the frontier closed, the nation will fill up too quickly if unrestricted immigration continues. 66 |
the ______ was not an example of the cultural conflict of the 1920s | the Harlem Renaissance 69 |
A coalition of urban working-class and unhappy farmers helped _______ gain the presidency | Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 70 |
these groups did NOT benefit from the boom times of the 1920s | Union members and small farmers 71 |
The purpose of the Bonus Army's march to Washington was to | "ask Congress to pay out the World War I bonus early. 77" |
Latinos (did or did not) fight in segregated units under white officers | did not 90 |
the purpose of GATT 1947 is | It reduced tariffs among member nations worldwide. 94 |
The Truman Doctrine is significant, because it | staked out a role for the United States in fighting communism around the world. 95 |
______ did not support Truman in the election of 1948 | Dixiecrats 98 |
Americans did not support the _______ | Sacco and Vanzetti trial 99 |
Rock-and-roll was influenced mainly by | Rhythm and blues 103 |
the ______ did not began in the 1960s | "the African-American civil rights movement. 106" |
Television did not greatly influenced public opinion when _________ | Sputnik was launched. 107 |
_______ was not a leader of the struggle for African American civil rights | Ralph Ellison. 108 |
The election of 1968 was significant because it | indicated a decline in the appeal of the liberal agenda for many Americans. it 115 |
________________ is a correct statement about President Nixon's response to stagflation | He used his presidential authority to impose wage and price controls 117 |
______ found support among the silent majority | Richard Nixon 120 |